MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the fascinating book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
explores
topics
having to do with open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
New
improvements in
online education enable
learners
all over the world
to take classes online.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
Massively open online courses are
usually free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
topics that
e-learning institutions
are struggling with
in 2015 because elearning technology is
advancing so quickly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs.
How can organizations
ensure that
the quality of training provided by these
MOOCs is
tolerable?
How can institutions
ensure that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
United States to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can educators
deal with the problems of
low
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As blended learning technology becomes more
available there is a
increasing
demand
to better understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and lots of other
participants
would like
to better comprehend
these
intriguing new open education
experiments.
Researchers want
to know how
these MOOC courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
developing
need for
facts
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open education resource topics.
This interesting new book
also discusses the
controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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